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When Edith hit Urbana last fall, she faced the usual requirement of 120 semester hours to get her degree. But her training at the Goethe Schule was so good that she was able to lop off 18 hours for her English, Russian and Latin, nine hours for her mathematics, twelve for history, four for geography, 18 for German. She added eight more by taking an advanced examination in Russian. After that, she was ready to tackle the remaining 51. The major she picked: economics...
...dance-drama of the early Kabuki called Shibaraku (Wait a moment), first seen in Tokyo in 1697, is still performed (see pictures opposite). Its hero, like many others in rough & tumble Kabuki tales, is a typical Oriental Superman who can lop off the heads of many opponents at a blow, lift houses with one finger, crush temple gates with his bare hands. The plot: a villainous lord, who has usurped the rule of the country, orders the decapitation of some people accused of losing a precious sword. Suddenly the brave hero appears, shouting "Shibaraku!" He then exposes the true culprit...
...final of the three-day eliminations (in which the field was cut from 196 to 96) was the most exciting-and proved out a clear-cut winner: Eddie, a lop-eared black, white and tan hound owned by Frank Jacobs, an oil-rich Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma City...
...Harvard football has come in so short a time, look back only to 1949, when the scores were lop-sided and the field strewn with injured Crimson players. Since that time, there has been a slow accretion of skill and spirit, as shown in the seasonal advance from one, to three, to five and now six victories. Credit for this steady improvement goes in part to those players who worked up through the Freshman and Junior Varsity to the performances of last Saturday and to the coaches who patiently molded them into a team...
...committee would lop off a student's time, particularly if he be well-prepared before he came. His school-college life it would make only seven hours long. Why not instead make Yale a place where there is rich enough offering for everyone, making it worth-while to spend four years here no matter how bright or well-prepared the student be? Education is more than a matter of course. It is also a matter of time...